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Guitar News Weekly Edition #323 |
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November 22, 2004 |
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GIBSON MONTANA'S FAB FIVE Gibson Montana, the acoustic division of musical giant Gibson Guitar, has raised the standard for collectible instruments by creating one-of-a-kind priceless acoustic guitars featuring hand-crafted ornamentation and highly sought-after materials. Each guitar is unique and offers the player an incredibly detailed guitar from the world's premiere acoustic guitar manufacturer. The current Gibson Montana showpiece collection is nicknamed "The Fab Five." It features three Gibson Hummingbird Custom models, based on Gibson's legendary "square shoulder" design and enhanced by AAA quilted maple back and sides, each with its own unique "signature" figuration. The newly designed, ornately engraved pickguards are, in themselves, pieces of art, and the tuners are gold-plated and personally engraved by master luthier Ren Ferguson. The remaining two members of "The Fab Five" are based on Gibson's famous "round shoulder" design. One is an Advanced Jumbo with exotic Madagascar rosewood back and sides. The other is an Advanced Jumbo Custom with highly figured birdseye maple back and sides and a red Adirondack spruce top. All five retail for under $6100. Gibson Montana has also produced one-of-a-kind guitars of spectacular quilted maple - one in a hand-rubbed blue finish, another in hand-rubbed cherry and one in Gibson's Antique Natural finish. These three exclusive instruments all retail for under $11,000. Gibson Montana's Museum Collection, featuring museum-quality guitars, currently showcases two spectacular Supreme J-200 Vine Custom models. Based on Gibson Montana's flagship J-200 model, known as "The King of the Flat-Tops" since its introduction in the 1930s, one of these new creations sports back and sides of Madagascar rosewood, and the other is of Hawaiian koa. Abalone and mother-of-pearl inlays abound on the headstock, fingerboard and pickguard in an elaborate vine motif. The back, sides and top are trimmed with abalone, and the tuner buttons are hand-carved. These two guitars valued at $50,000 would be a priceless addition to any serious collection. Legendary artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and the Rolling Stones have all been part of the Gibson Acoustic history. And today's acoustic guitars produced by the masters at Gibson Bozeman Montana, are played by artists Sheryl Crow, Randy Travis, Madonna, Dashboard Confessional and many more. |
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